Issue 50 (Sep/Oct) – KiteLife®http://kitelife.com
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Well folks, here we are… Our 50th issue, and nearly seven years of work behind us! It all started with Mike Gillard’s dream of bringing a kiting publication to the North American public when there were none to be had, with all the advantages of web content… Since then, we’ve stepped it up a notch […]]]>http://kitelife.com/kl-archive/columns/issue-50-from-editor/feed/0Issue 50: AKA Cornerhttp://kitelife.com/kl-archive/columns/issue-50-aka-corner/
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After six years, this will be my final AKA column for KiteLife. Most of you know I’m stepping down as president. And so I want to take this opportunity to thank the magazine and congratulate them for the good work they do for all of us. KiteLife began as an idea by my dear friend […]]]>http://kitelife.com/kl-archive/columns/issue-50-aka-corner/feed/0Issue 50: Dave’s World: Three Beautiful Days in Dieppehttp://kitelife.com/kl-archive/columns/issue-50-daves-world/
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The international kite festival in Dieppe France is clearly one of the great kite gatherings on the planet. For ten days, fliers from around the world gather here to share their kiting culture, flying secrets, and friendship. For 2006, 27 nations were represented. And while it may be a bit of a stretch to list […]]]>http://kitelife.com/kl-archive/columns/issue-50-daves-world/feed/0Issue 50: Dave’s World: Kiting in South Africahttp://kitelife.com/kl-archive/columns/issue-50-daves-world-south-africa/
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As we travel our exciting planet, Susan and I observe that kiting “success” is relative. And nowhere is this better illustrated than our experience of the past few days. We went directly from the huge international festival in Dieppe France, to a dusty fly in the Kayleshia Township of South Africa. These two gatherings could […]]]>http://kitelife.com/kl-archive/columns/issue-50-daves-world-south-africa/feed/0Issue 50: Drachen Archiveshttp://kitelife.com/kl-archive/columns/issue-50-drachen-archives/
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The following story tells of an interesting experiment with kites performed by Dr. Alexander Graham Bell well before his experiments with tetrahedrons and pursuit of flight. It also brings us to an interesting holding in the Drachen Foundation’s archives, and to the continuing relationship between the Foundation and Canada’s Alexander Graham Bell National Historic site. […]]]>http://kitelife.com/kl-archive/columns/issue-50-drachen-archives/feed/0Issue 50: Kites… Life.http://kitelife.com/kl-archive/columns/issue-50-kites-life/
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Each month we’ll be featuring one of the fine retailers who have been so supportive of Kitelife and other areas of the kiting community…The retailers you’ll find here are established, proven vendors. WindPower Sports 3111 S Valley View Blvd Las Vegas, NV 89102 702-220-4340 http://www.windpowersports.com Floor space: Retail store 600 sq ft; 1,600 sq ft […]]]>http://kitelife.com/kl-archive/columns/featured-store/issue-50-featured-store-windpower-sports/feed/0Issue 50: ProFile: Jon Trennepohlhttp://kitelife.com/kl-archive/general-topics/interviews/issue-50-profile-with-jon-trennepohl/
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Jon Trennepohl has been around sport kiting for a while… And if you’ve not had or made the chance to shake his hand and say “Thanks,” you really should do it. We can’t think of any portion of the sport of kiting where Jon hasn’t somehow been involved, or in several cases, led the way… […]]]>http://kitelife.com/kl-archive/general-topics/interviews/issue-50-profile-with-jon-trennepohl/feed/0Issue 50: ProFile: Carl Robertshawhttp://kitelife.com/kl-archive/general-topics/interviews/issue-50-profile-with-carl-robertshaw/
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One of the true greats of kiting, Carl has definitely made his mark in kiting history… As a member of world champion team Airkraft, winning multiple European championships of his own, as one of the top kite designers in the world, and as a very fine and generous (if not occasionally off-color) fellow. But Carl […]]]>http://kitelife.com/kl-archive/general-topics/interviews/issue-50-profile-with-carl-robertshaw/feed/0Issue 50: REVisions: WSIKF Recaphttp://kitelife.com/kl-archive/events/issue-50-revisions-wsikf-recap/
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It started as a simple idea this spring. John and I, with the ever growing iQuad, would simply pitch up on the WSIKF beach, setup camp, and fly team revs all week long, with as many people as we could possibly get involved. What we ended up with far exceeded what we had hoped to […]]]>http://kitelife.com/kl-archive/events/issue-50-revisions-wsikf-recap/feed/0Issue 50: Workshops… Magic?http://kitelife.com/kl-archive/other/kiting-experience/issue-50-workshops-magic/
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Where to start? Well, I guess my age is where I begin. I’ve been a competitor and “hard core” flier for years, but hadn’t really gotten involved in the community aspects until I turned 30 in 2005… Whether it’s maturity (go ahead and laugh – it’s fine) or just having more patience, or just plain […]]]>http://kitelife.com/kl-archive/other/kiting-experience/issue-50-workshops-magic/feed/0Issue 50: Buenos Aires Children Dayhttp://kitelife.com/kl-archive/events/issue-50-buenos-aires-children-day/
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On Sunday August 13th, 2006, Children Day was held in Buenos Aires – Argentina. The “Asociación Cerealista de Buenos Aires” – A.C.B.A– organized a big show in Luna Park Stadium to celebrate this special event. This time, BaToCo members were invited to participate in the show join efforts to support the children education campaign, which […]]]>http://kitelife.com/kl-archive/events/issue-50-buenos-aires-children-day/feed/0Issue 50: Berkeley Kite Festivalhttp://kitelife.com/kl-archive/events/issue-50-berkeley-kite-festival/
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Over the years I’ve been flying, I’ve maintained a mental list of some of the larger, long running kite festivals I have wanted to go to eventually. The Berkeley Kite Festival, held every year on the last weekend of July at Cesar E. Chavez Park, has long been high up on my list. While I […]]]>http://kitelife.com/kl-archive/events/issue-50-berkeley-kite-festival/feed/0Issue 50: Oostende Kite Festivalhttp://kitelife.com/kl-archive/events/issue-50-oostende-kite-festival/
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“Happy rotor hour” ? No, it isn’t a helicopter demonstration. It is one of the -returning- highlights of the Oostende Kite Festival! A demonstration field full of rotors, up to 10m in diameter, an hour long display. The 21st edition of this festival was, just as all previous ones, family-day oriented. It is held on […]]]>http://kitelife.com/kl-archive/events/issue-50-oostende-kite-festival/feed/0Issue 50: Golden Gate Challengehttp://kitelife.com/kl-archive/events/issue-50-golden-gate-challenge/
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Once again, Brian Champie, the AKA Regional Director for the Northern California Kite Club and the Bay Area Sport Kite League (BASKL) gathered us all together for our annual kite championship competition held at spacious Ocean Beach here in San Francisco. Despite our chronic low overcast skies that have persisted for weeks, it was not […]]]>http://kitelife.com/kl-archive/events/issue-50-golden-gate-challenge/feed/0Issue 50: Lewis & Clark Expositionhttp://kitelife.com/kl-archive/events/issue-50-lewis-clark-exposition/
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Getting There Midnight. That was when I told Justin I would be at his house to pick him up on the way to the Seaside event. And there we were at midnight, out in front of Jusitn’s house trying to load all of our gear plus a giant box of homemade cookies in to the […]]]>http://kitelife.com/kl-archive/events/issue-50-lewis-clark-exposition/feed/0Issue 50: 14th Annual Canal Dayshttp://kitelife.com/kl-archive/events/issue-50-14th-annual-canal-days/
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You might already be asking yourself where in the world is Port Colborne, Ontario? Today it’s a small city of approx 18,000 people and is situated on the northern shores of Lake Erie. It’s very close to Buffalo, New York. Port Colborne is a community truly steeped in history. First Nations people lived on the […]]]>http://kitelife.com/kl-archive/events/issue-50-14th-annual-canal-days/feed/0Issue 50: Orting Kite Festivalhttp://kitelife.com/kl-archive/events/issue-50-orting-kite-festival/
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All right everyone… The 2006 AKA Competition Season is finally over, and we’re all nearly “comp’ed” out and almost exhausted. Besides, we finally have a weekend off! So what’re we going to do with it? Well, shucks!! Why don’t we go out to Orting and camp in the Loin’s Club Field out there, laze around […]]]>http://kitelife.com/kl-archive/events/issue-50-orting-kite-festival/feed/0Issue 50: Southern Oregon Kite Festivalhttp://kitelife.com/kl-archive/events/issue-50-southern-oregon-kite-festival/
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Meeting up with John Barresi in Portland, we set out on our way to the land of Brookings (OR) to join in their annual festival. I’d heard from John about the light winds and amazing crowd response, I was really looking forward to this trip. As the road rolled along under our feet, we were […]]]>http://kitelife.com/kl-archive/events/issue-50-southern-oregon-kite-festival/feed/0Issue 50: Steveston SKChttp://kitelife.com/kl-archive/events/issue-50-steveston-skc/
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Is it over already? Is the fight for a spot to the Grand Nationals for the 2005-2006 season over? It must be, because this past weekend we had our yearly competition up in Canada at Gary Point Park in Steveston, BC. This is our last event of the kiting year and yet again, a jacket […]]]>http://kitelife.com/kl-archive/events/issue-50-steveston-skc/feed/0Issue 50: Summer Heathttp://kitelife.com/kl-archive/events/issue-50-summer-heat/
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After you’re into a competition season for a while, every event you attend begins to look just like every other event you’ve been to all season long. The same pilots, same events, same judges, scorekeepers, announcers, even the field setup looks the same. Same – same-same… all a bit of a blur! And that’s particularly […]]]>http://kitelife.com/kl-archive/events/issue-50-summer-heat/feed/0Issue 50: Whidbey Island Kite Festivalhttp://kitelife.com/kl-archive/events/issue-50-whidbey-island-kite-festival/
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Well, we’re off again – headed north this time, off to the annual Whidbey Island Kite Festival at the northern end of Puget Sound. And we’re late getting away as usual, so it’s the normal Friday afternoon traffic on northbound Interstate 5. John worked on his laptop all the way north, tinkering with iQuad logos […]]]>http://kitelife.com/kl-archive/events/issue-50-whidbey-island-kite-festival/feed/0